Event 4: Spring Hope Eternal

[letsplayamod]

Down to half your group's size, afflicted with hallucinations of faces long gone, you've certainly been put through a lot these last few weeks.

What's a bit more?

Upon the morning, a great clatter comes from the temple. A few pegasi have once again fled from the stables on their floor, seemingly distressed but unharmed. The cause becomes more apparent the lower you venture. Deeper and deeper down into the temple, the colder and windier it gets...

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[letsplayamod]

[The next holds the symbol Β. It's adorned in carvings of jewelry, intertwined hands, and intricate patterns of feathers.

A light trails from this column as well, making a trail that leaves the room and stretches out into the hall.]

[sweetsynergy]

B- no, it'd be beta, right..?

[Oh, hm. Gonna. Cautiously follow the light trail?]

If anything bad happens the signal is me yelling real loud.

[letsplayamod]

[Just as Luna has chosen to investigate, this trail also leads out into the hall before winding towards, and leading up, the stairs.]

[sweetsynergy]

Oh this better not be a trap-

[She shouts over her shoulder.]

I'M HEADING UP.

[And up she go.]

[letsplayamod]

[Up, up, up you go, Vanity. While she'll spot other lines veering off on different floors, this one goes straight to the top.

All the way to the top floor, it's leading you into the area of the cornucopia.]

[sweetsynergy]

[Oh good, her favorite spot that has never done anything terrible.]

[Is it leading to the horn itself?]

[letsplayamod]

[Not exactly. It veers off from there, towards some of the crumbled remains of the statue that was up here. Strangely, some of the rubble appears to have disappeared as of late. Or it's the bigger pieces that are looking more put together.

Besides that, the light. It's lead you to what appears to have been the back of the statue's head. Where a glowing glyph has been set in the stone.]

[sweetsynergy]

[Huh. Okay.]

[Gonna. Pick up a little rick or something and toss it at the glyph.]

[letsplayamod]

[The little rock bounces harmlessly off the glyph. The light of the mysterious glow shimmers a little at the contact.]

[sweetsynergy]

[....]

If this blows up in my face I'm finding a way to haunt Typhon AND Athena forever-

[She reaches out and gingerly touches the glyph.]

[letsplayamod]

[The moment her hand touches the glyph the light of it flashes into Vanity's eyes with a momentarily blinding brightness. It only lasts a few seconds and in those seconds a feminine voice, deep and husty to the point of nearly being a growl but crystal clear in it's diction, fills her head.]

I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

[Could that be...a riddle...?]

[sweetsynergy]

....what.

[Her worst enemy. Her own brain.]

Fuckin' wordplay-

[letsplayamod]

[The light passes quickly and Vanity will get the feeling that she does not need to answer immediately. The riddle giver will not demand a correct answer to it's riddle until she touches it again.

Might be a good time to keep working on those interpersonal skills and ask for help.]

[yourheroine]

...?

[Even if Aoi did hear that, she doesn't know the answer.]

[sweetsynergy]

[Vanity sighs, looking around- and jumps slightly as she sees Aoi.]

[Guess who didn't realize she was being followed.]

HAa-hey, Aoi. Did you. Catch any of that?

[yourheroine]

No? Did the symbol tell you something?

[sweetsynergy]

Yeah, it, uh- hang on-

[Finally, her useless-ass power is MVP. Checkmate, atheists.]


I speak without a mouth and hear without ears. I have nobody, but I come alive with the wind. What am I?

[yourheroine]

...a bird without a beak?

[No.]

[sweetsynergy]

I think birds have ears, just small ones. Good thought, though.

[She folds her arms.]

Something that makes noise. Or reacts to it? Or both.

[yourheroine]

...a trumpet.

[No!]

[sweetsynergy]

That could fit coming alive with the wind? Blowing into it.

[That feels off, though.]

Doesn't feel like- the answers to these are always sort of weird and smug, you know? Like the point is for the person asking to feel all warm and snuggly about how much smarter they are than the one struggling to answer.

[yourheroine]

Is that why people like riddles?

[Aoi blinks, and looks for Shinichi or Miyuki.

They both shrug, as if to say that they only have as much knowledge as Aoi does on this.]

Boop boop...so it's not something solid?

[sweetsynergy]

Sure seems like it.

[She is built for the punch and stab, not- well not THIS kind of subtle, at least.]

...huh, maybe literally not solid. Something with no body. Something non-physical that makes noise. ...a stoooorm?

[yourheroine]

A windy storm...like a tornado!

[sweetsynergy]

With thunder!

[they're gonna answer wrong and die]

Wait, no, where would the part about hearing fit in?